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This practice game includes material that was used for rehearsals during the 1998-1999 season of Jeopardy!, but was never aired... enjoy!
TIME
$100 His 1905 work "Special Theory of Relativity" called time the "fourth dimension"
$200 Quick! It's the term used to denote the length of time equal to one-billionth of a second
$300 For the "Official Source Of Time" used in U.S., turn to the Master Clock Facility run by the Dept. of this Armed Forces branch
$400 His remarkable 1989 book "A Brief History Of Time" is subtitled "From The Big Bang To Black Holes"
$500 Unveiled in the 15th century, the Astronomical Clock in this European capital lies in the city's famous Old Town Hall
LIFE
$100 Okay Mom, they're the two medical specialists abbreviated by the term "OB/Gyn"
$200 Just like Mom's library book, it's the two-word term for a doctor's best guess as to when the baby just might make its first appearance
$300 From the Latin for "of three months", it's one-third of Mom's normal term of gestation
$400 It doesn't have to be 7am for Mom to experience these early side effects of pregnancy, including dizziness and nausea
$500 Using ultra-miniaturized cameras, Mom loved his series of inside-the-womb photographs featured in "Life" Magazine, April 1965
THE NEW YORKER
$100 On the banks of the Hudson River you'll find "Sunnyside", home of this "Legend Of Sleepy Hollow" author
$200 The U.S. premiere of Mahler's "Resurrection" symphony took place in 1908 at this concert venue, located at 57th St. and 7th Ave. in Manhattan
$300 You don't have to be thin to cross from Staten Island to Brooklyn on this bridge
$400 Author Caleb Carr's 1994 novel "The Alienist" takes place in 1896, when this future U.S. president was NYC Police Commissioner
$500 The only golf course with a Manhattan zip code is found on this 172-acre island in New York Harbor
MOVIELINE
$100 1989 --- "If you build it, he will come"
$200 1980 --- "Heeeeeeeere's Johnny"
$300 1974 --- "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
$400 1948 --- "Badges? We don't need no stinkin' badges!"
$500 1975 --- "You go inside the cage? Cage goes in the water? You go in the water? Shark's in the water? Our shark?..."
READER'S DIGEST
$100 It was as a result of a story-writing competition between Mary Shelley and Lord Byron that this 1816 horror classic was begun
$200 Chapter headings in his 1987 novel "Sphere" include "The Surface", "The Deep", and "The Power"
$300 Most of his novels, including "Ironweed" and "Legs", are set in his hometown of Albany, N.Y.
$400 In 1671 this Englishman published both "Samson Agonistes" and "Paradise Regained"$500 Theodore Dreiser's first novel since "The Titan" was this 1925 work based on a celebrated U.S. murder case
TV GUIDE
$100 He went head-to-head with Jay Leno's "Tonight Show" when his "Late Show" premiered on CBS, August 30, 1993
$200 Long before Don Johnson came to fight "vice", this southern city was home to "Surfside 6", "Caribe", and "Michael Shayne"
$300 Victor Sen Yung starred as Hop Sing, the Cartwright's cook, on this classic NBC western set in Nevada
$400 "Man, woman, birth, death, infinity" were the five words intoned at the beginning of each episode of this 1961-66 Vince Edwards medical series
$500 In 1995 Keith Lockhart replaced John Williams as host and conductor of this long-running PBS summer music series
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
$200 Dublin-born playwright who penned "The Importance Of being Earnest" in 1892
$400 In addition to her translation and adaptation of Voltaire's "Candide", she wrote "Toys In The Attic" and "Watch On The Rhine"
$600 His plays -- and screenplays -- have included "Equus" and "Amadeus"
$800 Among his early one-act plays from late 1950s were "Zoo Story", "The American Dream" and "The Sandbox"
$1000 His 1991 play "Dancing At Lughnasa" reached movie houses in 1999 with a cast led by Meryl Streep
NUMBER, PLEASE
$200 Number of "Gentlemen From Verona", at least according to Shakespeare
$400 Title of 1995 Brad Pitt thriller in which madman Kevin Spacey acts out six of the deadly sins
$600 Number of "paths" in Buddhism, or, number on back of Steve Young's San Francisco 49ers' jersey$800 Military tests of the U-2 spy plane began at this "area" near Groom Lake, Nevada in the late 1950s
$1000 Number of Bela Bartok string quartets, or, number of "days" comprising 1967 war between Israel and Arab Nations
TOUGH BEFORE & AFTER
$200 "Wheel Of Fortune" letter-turner reads lupine Jack London tale
$400 Kissable former host of "Family Feud" stars in sexy teen drama on the WB network
$600 Actress who pilots jumbo jet in "Airport '75" decides to bomb the Superbowl with her hijacked blimp
$800 Loser of 1999 Sugar Bowl eats the candy that "melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
$1000 "Ask any mermaid you happen to see" if this brand of tuna was served on the set of Lloyd Bridges' aquatic TV series
"JOAN"
$200 Born in Domremy, France in 1412, she was canonized by Pope Benedict XV in 1920
$400 In her book "Healthy Living" this former Good Morning America co-hostess says: "holding on to your anger only gives you tense muscles..."
$600 Australian-born soprano who made her professional debut in a 1952 Covent Garden production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute"
$800 Ratings were so poor for this 1982 spinoff that actors Erin Moran and Scott Baio returned to Happy Days the very next season
$1000 Actress who played Katherine Hepburn's pal in "Desk Set"; she also starred in stage & film versions of "A Tree Grows In Brooklyn"
RIVERS
$200 In 1851, Emmanuel Leutze painted General George Washington crossing this river to surprise the British at Trenton
$400 The White Nile and Blue Nile flow north to meet at this Sudanese capital city$600 The Canadian River begins in New Mexico, then flows east through these two U.S. states
$800 Crossing one of the richest coal basins in Europe, this country's main rivers are the Bug, the San, and the Wistula
$1000 U.S. state where you'll find rivers named Withlacoochee, St. Johns, and Manatee
CAN WE TALK?
$200 When Greg Kinnear took over in 1994, this sportscaster had hosted Later for almost six years
$400 Co-host Regis Philbin's wife, Joy, filled in for her when she left their talk show in 1990 to have a baby
$600 He succeeded Steve Allen -- and preceded Johnny Carson -- as host of The Tonight Show, from 1957 to 1962
$800 Famous as an "insult" comedian, this "Merchant of Venom" hosted a short-lived talk and variety show in 1968 & '69
$1000 This former child star of "The Cosby Show" launched her very own talk show in 1995
Category: The United Kingdom
Answer: Divided into eight counties since 1974, this principality includes the island of Anglesey, off its NW coast
Question: What is Wales?
TIME
Albert Einstein
nanosecond
Dept. Of Navy
Stephen Hawking
Prague
LIFE
Obstetrician & Gynecologist
Due Date
Trimester
Morning Sickness
Lennart Nillson
THE NEW YORKER
Washington Irving
Carnegie Hall
Verrazano-Narrows bridge
Teddy Roosevelt
Governor's Island
MOVIELINE
Field Of Dreams
The Shining
Blazing Saddles
Treasure Of The Sierra Madre
Jaws
READER'S DIGEST
Frankenstein
Michael Crichton
William Kennedy
John Milton
An American Tragedy
TV GUIDE
David Letterman
Miami
Bonanza
Ben Casey, M.D.
Evening At Pops
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
Oscar Wilde
Lillian Hellman
Peter Schaffer
Edward Albee
Brian Friel
NUMBER, PLEASE
Two
Seven
Eight
[Area]Fifty-one
Six
TOUGH BEFORE & AFTER
Vanna White Fang
Richard Dawson's Creek
Karen Black Sunday
Texas A & M & M's
Chicken Of The Sea Hunt
"JOAN"
[Saint] Joan [d'] Of Arc
Joan Lunden
[Dame] Joan Sutherland
Joanie Loves Chachi
Joan Blondell
RIVERS
Delaware
Khartoum
Texas and Oklahoma
Poland
Florida
CAN WE TALK?
Bob Costas
Kathie Lee Gifford
Jack Paar
Don Rickles
Tempestt Bledsoe
